Comments on: A Bridge to the Past http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/08/09/a-bridge-to-the-past/ Korea... in Blog Format Sun, 7 Sep 2008 04:11:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: The Marmot’s Hole » A Blogger After My Own Heart http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/08/09/a-bridge-to-the-past/#comment-102417 The Marmot’s Hole » A Blogger After My Own Heart Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:03:26 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/08/09/a-bridge-to-the-past/#comment-102417 [...] As a bit of an intro, here’s his photos from the leper colony on Sorok-do, which was introduced recently in the New York Times. [...] [...] As a bit of an intro, here’s his photos from the leper colony on Sorok-do, which was introduced recently in the New York Times. [...]

]]> By: The Marmot’s Hole » A Blogger After My Own Heart http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/08/09/a-bridge-to-the-past/#comment-102416 The Marmot’s Hole » A Blogger After My Own Heart Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:03:25 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/08/09/a-bridge-to-the-past/#comment-102416 [...] As a bit of an intro, here’s his photos from the leper colony on Sorok-do, which was introduced recently in the New York Times. [...] [...] As a bit of an intro, here’s his photos from the leper colony on Sorok-do, which was introduced recently in the New York Times. [...]

]]> By: ●~* http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/08/09/a-bridge-to-the-past/#comment-101018 ●~* Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:34:24 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/08/09/a-bridge-to-the-past/#comment-101018 http://article.joins.com/article/article.asp?ctg=20&total_id=2286938 Here's the name. The novel 『This paradise Of Yours』was well sold and I also read it. I do not guarantee the correctness of the column; they tend to be lazy in searching for materials in order to be correct. Suho Masato(周防正) is written as one of them in the column. Lepers were not always victims. The child at a mountain in an island heard a legend that a leper had killed a child and eaten its liver to be cured from Hansen's disease. Bad knowledge, bad faith. Grownups hushed that that horrible thing had happened nearby. Maybe an intimidation. Well, I think there's necessity of gathering them in one place to protect and care them. Here'a poem of which motif is the bad faith: excellent but not pleasant. 서정주 해와 하늘빛이 문둥이는 서러워 보리밭에 달 뜨면 애기 하나 먹고 꽃처럼 붉은 울음을 밤새 울었다 http://article.joins.com/artic.....id=2286938

Here’s the name.
The novel 『This paradise Of Yours』was well sold and I also read it.
I do not guarantee the correctness of the column; they tend to be lazy in searching for materials in order to be correct.

Suho Masato(周防正) is written as one of them in the column.

Lepers were not always victims. The child at a mountain in an island heard a legend that a leper had killed a child and eaten its liver to be cured from Hansen’s disease. Bad knowledge, bad faith. Grownups hushed that that horrible thing had happened nearby. Maybe an intimidation.

Well, I think there’s necessity of gathering them in one place to protect and care them.

Here’a poem of which motif is the bad faith: excellent but not pleasant.

서정주

해와 하늘빛이
문둥이는 서러워

보리밭에 달 뜨면
애기 하나 먹고

꽃처럼 붉은 울음을 밤새 울었다

]]> By: Garrett http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/08/09/a-bridge-to-the-past/#comment-100997 Garrett Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:59:53 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/08/09/a-bridge-to-the-past/#comment-100997 Glad you enjoyed the Debito interview, Robert. Glad you enjoyed the Debito interview, Robert.

]]> By: tocchin http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/08/09/a-bridge-to-the-past/#comment-100986 tocchin Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:36:13 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/08/09/a-bridge-to-the-past/#comment-100986 Yes Onishi did say that. Our Japanese commander's name was Sato, he said, He carried a big bat and would hit us whenever we rested. He was very viciuos. #9 It was in 1943 that the medicine for leprosy was first introduced in the US. This information was brought to Japan soon after that by a German submarine during WW2. Yes Onishi did say that.

Our Japanese commander’s name was Sato, he said, He carried a big bat and would hit us whenever we rested. He was very viciuos.

#9 It was in 1943 that the medicine for leprosy was first introduced in the US. This information was brought to Japan soon after that by a German submarine during WW2.

]]> By: pawikirogi http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/08/09/a-bridge-to-the-past/#comment-100983 pawikirogi Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:44:53 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/08/09/a-bridge-to-the-past/#comment-100983 'Onishi does not say anything about it though he mentions about the cruel Japanese commander....' tocchin 'Life during Japanese rule sometimes verged on the surreal. One notoriously brutal hospital director had a 31-foot statue of himself built and forced patients to bow before it each morning. Another, remembered to this day for his kindness, treated the patients like his family so that after his death here, they pulled together their savings and built a cenotaph in his honor....' onishi, nyt mr onishi didn't say the brutal hospital director was japanese. and yet, you were able to see that he was. think, man! ‘Onishi does not say anything about it though he mentions about the cruel Japanese commander….’ tocchin

‘Life during Japanese rule sometimes verged on the surreal. One notoriously brutal hospital director had a 31-foot statue of himself built and forced patients to bow before it each morning. Another, remembered to this day for his kindness, treated the patients like his family so that after his death here, they pulled together their savings and built a cenotaph in his honor….’ onishi, nyt

mr onishi didn’t say the brutal hospital director was japanese. and yet, you were able to see that he was.

think, man!

]]> By: SomeguyinKorea http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/08/09/a-bridge-to-the-past/#comment-100933 SomeguyinKorea Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:46:05 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/08/09/a-bridge-to-the-past/#comment-100933 When you realize that leprosy (Hansen's Disease) has been successfully treated with antibiotics since the early 20th century, and therefore its patients don't need to be isolated from the general population (discrimination is another issue), you see that Korean civilians were not very high up on the list of priorities of the Japanese government. When you realize that leprosy (Hansen’s Disease) has been successfully treated with antibiotics since the early 20th century, and therefore its patients don’t need to be isolated from the general population (discrimination is another issue), you see that Korean civilians were not very high up on the list of priorities of the Japanese government.

]]> By: sewing http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/08/09/a-bridge-to-the-past/#comment-100898 sewing Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:58:54 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/08/09/a-bridge-to-the-past/#comment-100898 Anyhoooo....it was a fascinating article. And it was clear from the context that the hospital director who was remembered so fondly was Japanese. If the lepers' privacy is to be respected, I guess we won't be seeing a Marmot photo essay from the island any time soo, though, which'd be a shame, if the architecture has been preserved so intact. Anyhoooo….it was a fascinating article. And it was clear from the context that the hospital director who was remembered so fondly was Japanese.

If the lepers’ privacy is to be respected, I guess we won’t be seeing a Marmot photo essay from the island any time soo, though, which’d be a shame, if the architecture has been preserved so intact.

]]> By: slim http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/08/09/a-bridge-to-the-past/#comment-100876 slim Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:58:48 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/08/09/a-bridge-to-the-past/#comment-100876 Chonju bibimbap gets trashed and Duran Duran worship is defended: This is an upside-down world I want no part of. Chonju bibimbap gets trashed and Duran Duran worship is defended: This is an upside-down world I want no part of.

]]> By: Robert Koehler http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/08/09/a-bridge-to-the-past/#comment-100871 Robert Koehler Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:35:28 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/08/09/a-bridge-to-the-past/#comment-100871 Garrett --- Couldn't tell why you're getting the Aussie flag. Odd. PS: I really enjoyed TPR's interview with Debito. And there's nothing wrong with liking Duran Duran. Garrett — Couldn’t tell why you’re getting the Aussie flag. Odd.

PS: I really enjoyed TPR’s interview with Debito. And there’s nothing wrong with liking Duran Duran.

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